Comments on GOP bumbling gives Obamacare some pr helpTypePad2013-10-14T00:42:25ZMiami Heraldhttp://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/tag:typepad.com,2003:http://miamiherald.typepad.com/nakedpolitics/2013/10/gop-bumbling-gives-obamacare-some-pr-help/comments/atom.xml/Ed Jenkins commented on 'GOP bumbling gives Obamacare some pr help'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451b26169e2019b00017f5b970c2013-10-14T02:32:23Z2013-10-14T02:32:23ZEd JenkinsAs we have seen these Republicans have adopted a position that is highly supported in our state and are to...<p>As we have seen these Republicans have adopted a position that is highly supported in our state and are to be commended with trying to stop this un-American and highly offensive and destructive law. It is time for socialists such as the current White House occupant to recognize that their income redistribution schemes have resulted in nothing but miserable failure and poverty in every country they were tried and repeal their awful law.</p>Reaganist Truth commented on 'GOP bumbling gives Obamacare some pr help'tag:typepad.com,2003:6a00d83451b26169e2019b00018f11970d2013-10-14T01:18:05Z2013-10-14T01:18:05ZReaganist TruthReagan’s Infamous Neshoba County Fair Speech and The Republicans’ Southern Strategy It was long after Reagan left office that I...<p>Reagan’s Infamous Neshoba County Fair Speech and The Republicans’ Southern Strategy<br />
It was long after Reagan left office that I heard about Reagan’s infamous speech at the Neshoba County Fair, right outside Philadelphia, Mississippi where three civil rights workers—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner--had been slain in 1964. Reagan used this historic area to send a coded message to Southern racist. Reagan told the crowd that he was in favor of “state rights” and that as president he would &quot;restore to states and local governments the power that belongs to them.&quot; Reagan shared the stage with John Bell Williams, a notorious segregationist and then-Representative Trent Lott who applauded Strom Thurmond&#39;s 1948 Dixiecrat campaign. </p>
<p>Reagan only came to the Neshoba County Fair after Mississippi&#39;s Republican national committeeman wrote his campaign to advise that it would be a good place to reach out to &quot;George Wallace-inclined voters.” Reagan’s 1980 campaign manager, Lee Atwater acknowledged in 1981 that the strategy had been designed to appeal to &quot;the racist side of the [George] Wallace voter&quot; without antagonizing other Americans who might be offended by ugly Wallace-style racism. As Atwater explained, &quot;You start out in 1954 by saying, &#39;Ngger, ngger, ngger.&#39; By 1968 you can&#39;t say &#39;ngger&#39;—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like &#39;forced busing,&#39; &#39;states&#39; rights,&#39; and all these things that you&#39;re talking about are totally economic things and a by-product of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it... because obviously sitting around saying, &#39;We want to cut this,&#39; is much more abstract than even the busing thing and a hell of a lot more abstract than &#39;Ngger, ngger.&#39;&quot;</p>